Job Description

The Kent Archives and Local History Service has a vacancy for an Archivist in its Archive Service Officer team. The role includes a wide range of professional duties, from dealing with depositors, accessioning and cataloguing to answering detailed research enquiries about the collections and participating in our outreach programmes. The Archive Service Officers work closely with the front-facing public service and reprographics staff, as part of a small, friendly and highly motivated team.

The post is based at the Kent History and Library Centre, wherein are housed documents, manuscript and printed books, maps, photographs and drawings, relating to 1300 years of Kent\'s history. The collections include the Kent County Archive, the archives of Kent\'s two Anglican dioceses, parish records, many borough and other local government collections, and extensive private/unofficial archives. Kent Archives and Local History Service is an Accredited Archives Service and has Place of Deposit status for housing public records.

The role requires a qualified archivist or someone with equivalent experience, with the ability to catalogue to ISAD(G) standards using archival cataloguing software, specifically CALM; excellent communication, interpersonal and presentational skills; good competence in IT; and the ability to meet deadlines.

If you love working with archives and people, get satisfaction from hitting deadlines, and share our vision of making archival collections as accessible and beneficial to as many people as possible, please get in touch.

Kent County Council is one of the country\'s biggest local authorities and provides a comprehensive package of benefits and employee support

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the /Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information, please contact:

Mark Bateson, telephone 03000 414852 or 0754 0642747; email Mark.Bateson@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county\'s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note - if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

& Person Specification

Salary \xc2\xa328,598 - \xc2\xa332,333 per annum
Contract type Permanent Full Time
Working Hours 37 hours per week
Location Kent History and Library Centre, United Kingdom
Job category Libraries, Registration and Archives
Job Reference REF/TP/48980/9383
Closing Date 17 December, 2023

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